Last night proved to be an evening of celebration for the sector, as building societies took home three key awards at the British Bank Awards 2019.

At a ceremony held at Cafe de Paris in central London, Dudley, Darlington and Vernon Building Societies received awards for Customer Service Champion, Best Specialist Mortgage Provider and Best Savings Provider respectively. 

The British Bank Awards are particularly prominent across the financial services sector as they are voted for by customers themselves.

BSA Associate, DPR, also took home the award for Technology Vendor of the Year, working with a number of building societies.

Michael Fotis, Founder of Smart Money People said: “The British Bank Awards have one simple aim: to highlight the firms delivering high customer satisfaction. This may be firms with innovative products and services, as well as firms with tried and tested business models.

"This year, it’s been particularly pleasing to see more customers passionately engaged in the voting process, and willing to tell us what they like as well as what could be better... the voting process also proved to be favourable for the UK’s building society sector, with the awards for ‘Best Savings Provider’, ‘Best Specialist Mortgage Provider’ and ‘Customer Service Champion’ awarded to regional building societies.”

Congratulations from all at the BSA. You can see the full winners list on the Smart Money People website.

Today Smart Money People also released a Banking League Table, calculated by rounding up customer satisfaction scores from the last year. Nationwide Building Society can be found at a respectable fourth place out of fourteen firms.